{"id":2545,"date":"2008-09-18T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/b97b771dcf6f6ff1d16d864f2a09b6f1"},"modified":"2008-09-18T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:04:51","slug":"microsoft-ends-ads-featuring-gates-comedian-seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ends ads featuring Gates, comedian Seinfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft has retired a bizarre 2-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.<\/p>\n

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Bloggers and online media have suggested that the Redmond, Wash., company yanked the Seinfeld ads after they were poorly received. The ads show Gates and Seinfeld trading banter at a mall shoe store and while living with a suburban family, trying to get in touch with regular people. Seinfeld asks Gates nonsensical questions about the future of computing, and Gates responds with “signs” that he's on the right track, including “adjusting his shorts,” as Seinfeld called the awkward hip shake, and doing “the robot,” a dance move. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft has retired a bizarre 2-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.<\/p>\n

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Bloggers and online media have suggested that the Redmond, Wash., company yanked the Seinfeld ads after they were poorly received. The ads show Gates and Seinfeld trading banter at a mall shoe store and while living with a suburban family, trying to get in touch with regular people. Seinfeld asks Gates nonsensical questions about the future of computing, and Gates responds with “signs” that he's on the right track, including “adjusting his shorts,” as Seinfeld called the awkward hip shake, and doing “the robot,” a dance move. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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